Community:Email 01may14

This is a generic mailing to the CEDAR community sent 01 May 2014.
Meetings and jobs are listed at http://cedarweb.hao.ucar.edu under
'Community' as 'Calendar of Meetings' and 'CEDAR related opportunities'.
CEDAR email messages are under 'Community' as 'CEDAR email Newsletters'.
All are in 'Quick Links' on the main page.

STUDENTS - We encourage students to purchase their airline tickets now as prices
are starting to rise. If you submit your airline receipt to Carrie Appel by Monday,
May 19 we will have your reimbursement check at check-in. For those that wait, it can
take up to two months from the end of the CEDAR Workshop to receive your reimbursement check.

Important deadlines to be aware of:

Fri 16 May for students to register on-line for the workshop and student lodging. A late fee

of $75 is imposed on student registrations on Monday, 19 May. VISA, Mastercard or Diners credit
cards can be used in the registration process on-line. Cancellations after May 19 incur a $15
charge. Students registering after May 16 will be assigned housing on a space available basis only.

Fri 16 May for on-line submission of abstracts for posters. Abstracts are required for all

submitted posters. The poster sessions will be held on Tuesday (IT) and Wednesday (MLT), June 24-25, 2014.

Mon 19 May all CEDAR students should try to purchase their airline tickets and have the

Applications are invited for a scientific programmer position in the field of space
and terrestrial physics. The successful candidate is expected to support a Boston
College contract with the Department of Defense. The initial appointment is for 1 year
initially but additional years may be awarded contingent on performance and funding.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated proficiency in programming in high
level computer languages such as C and FORTRAN; capabilities to work in both LINUX
and Windows environments; and experience working with graphical computer languages
such as IDL and MatLab. A scientific background and familiarity working with ground-based
and space based imaging data is a plus.

The qualified candidate should have an MS or higher degree in engineering, computer
science, mathematics or a physical science and at least 5 years experience working
as a scientific programmer.

This position will be located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. U.S. citizenship is required.
Please send a CV together with three references to Patricia Doherty at Boston College
(Patricia.Doherty at bc.edu) by May 31, 2014.

The African Geophysical Society (AGS, http://afgps.org) Award of Fellowship
was awarded to Prof. Ousseini Fambitakoye at the Laboratoire de Géophysique in France
for his "great contribution to Earth and Space science research in Africa".

The award will be presented at the opening session of the 2014 AGS conference on
3rd June 2014. The conference will be at Abuja, Nigeria from June 2-6
(http://afgps.org/conference/).

(4) Nominations due 14 Sep for 3 European Space Weather Awards.

From Jean.Lilensten at obs.ujf-grenoble.fr.

Dear colleagues,

In 2013, a set of three medals in Space Weather have been created at the occasion
of the 10th anniversary of the European Space Weather Week. These medals are now
becoming an annual event (see http://www.stce.be/esww11/medals.php),
with a medal ceremony during the European Space Weather Week (November 17-21, 2014,
Liège, Belgium, http://www.stce.be/esww11/).

The International Kristian Birkeland medal for Space Weather and Space Climate

relates to outstanding scientific or technological results.

The International Marcel Nicolet medal for Space Weather and Space Climate rewards

efforts to structure the space weather community at an international level.

The International Alexander Chizhevsky medal for Space Weather and Space Climate

rewards a young researcher (PhD or having defended his thesis within the last 8 years
prior to the ESWW 11, i.e. after October 30th, 2005) for major contributions to space
weather research and/or services.

In order to propose a candidate, please send a pdf document including:

Your name, first name, professional address.

The name, first name, professional address of the person that you suggest for a prize.

Which of the three prizes is concerned for your nomination.

Reasons for the nomination (two pages). Please, make sure that these reasons relate to

space weather and fulfill the criteria below.

As far as possible, join a CV of the suggested person. If you do not want to ask

her/him a CV and if you do not find any on a web personal page for example, send at
least a CV that emphasizes the points for which the application is made (publications, achievements).

If possible, please include letters of support from two other colleagues, possibly from

other countries than yours. You may also include those two colleagues as co-signatories on the proposal.

Up to five references (journal articles, prizes, patents…).

It is not allowed to apply for one-self. The Medal Committee may not attribute a medal
if it considers that the applications do not have the necessary level of international excellence.

Composition of the Medal Committee:
The Medal committee is composed of Claude Tomberg of the Royal Academy of Belgium,
Øyvind Sørensen of the Norwegian academy of science and Dr. Galina Kotova, of the
Russian academy of science. To complement this panel, space weather-related scientists
of each of these three countries will work with the academies, namely
Prof. Jøran Moen, Prof. Alv Egeland, Dr. Pål Brekke, Norway
Prof. Véronique Dehant, Belgium
Prof. Anatoli Petrukovich, Russia
Finally, there will be a representative of the Local Organizing Committee of the European
Space Weather Week (R. Van der Linden), the head of the Space Weather Working Team (S. Poedts)
and of the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (A. Belehaki). The program committee is
chaired by J. Lilensten.
None of the Medal Committee members are eligible for a medal.

Send your documents by email only to SWmedals@oma.be. The deadline for the applications is
September, 14th 2014.

CRITERIA

All three prizes are prestigious recognitions in Space Weather. They only recognize
excellence. This is difficult to measure, but some criteria are common to the three of
them. The work must have been documented (in peer review journals or book chapters), or
must be a technological contribution that has proved to work (not a project or a concept).
It must be relevant to space weather and/or space climate. It must also be internationally
recognized: International character of the scientific or technology contribution even if
this criterion will not be as drastically used for the Chizhevsky medal than for the two others.

On top of those common criteria are some specific to each prize.

Criteria for attributing the Marcel Nicolet medal:

The candidate of the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal must have demonstrated a unique ability to
bind the space weather community in a spirit of peace and friendship, to educate in and
outside of the space weather community, to go beyond the space weather research community
and address a larger audience, and/or to serve the space weather community in conveying a
roadmap going beyond the science involved.

Criteria for attributing the Alexander Chizhevsky medal:

The candidate of the Alexander Chizhevsky Medal must have taken unexplored ways, potentially at
risk, to reach a successful achievement. Practically, it would be useful to obtain a recommendation
letter from the PhD advisor in case (s)he is not the person sending the application. In case of
pregnancies, the 8 years period is augmented by 1.5 year per child

Criteria for attributing the Kristian Birkeland medal:

The candidate of the Kristian Birkeland Medal must have demonstrated a unique ability to combine
basic and applied research to obtain useful products, preferentially being used outside the research
community, or across disciplines in research. The work must have led to a better physical
comprehension of the solar or terrestrial phenomena related to space weather, to a drastic
improvement of the modeling, or to a new generation of instruments for space weather observations.